Stay-plate for coats.



No. 829,746. PATBNTBD JUNE 19, 1906.

J. A. VAUGHN.

STAY PLATE FOR GOATS.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY27,1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

JAMES ARCHER VAUGHN, F CHANTE, KANSAS.

l STAY-PLATE FOR coATs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1906.

Application led July 27, 1905. Serial No. 271,524;-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ARCHER VAUGHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chanute, in the county of Neosho and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stay-Plates for Coats, 6to.; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the A--art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference besaid strips.

My invention consists, further, in various details and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter fully descrlbed, and then specifically deflned in the appended claim.

illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which- Flgure, 1 is a -side elevation showing one side of a coat with my improved-strip fastened thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view, a portion of the coat being broken away to better illustrate thedetails of the invention and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective viewshowingv the strip-fastening means and a cloth covering whlch is adapted to be fastened to the stri lpeference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a coat having the usual laplel B, and D designates a canvas filling whic is usually employed in making coats and to which my strip is designed to be fastened.

E designates a strip, preferably of celluloid, one end of whic E', is diagonalv and ada ted to conform to the fold of the lapel, as s own clearly in the drawings. Said strip of celluloid, which may be bent in any shape by heating, is apertured, as at e, to receive the arms of the fastening devices F, said arms `being parallel, and after passing through the strip adapted to be clenched to the canvas filling, whereby the strip may be held in proper position. In order to obscure the strip E when it is used on lightweight materials, I prefer to cover the outerr face thereof with a piece of cloth K, which is held to the strip and canvas filling by means of the fastening devices. f

In Figs. -1 and 2 I have shown a secon strip, (designated by letter N which is similar to the strip E, excepting that both ends are parallel and at ri ht angles to the length of the strip, while the corners are slightly rounded. The forms of strip designated by letter N are adapted to be used below the lapels and for the purpose of holding the meeting edges ofthe coat in vertical lines and prevent sagging or wrinkling of the flaps of the coat.

By the provision of the stri s as shown and described it will be noted t at means is afforded for attachment to a coat already made by simply inserting the strips between the lining and the outer cloth and clenching I the fasteners to the canvas filling and being obscured from sight will serve as means for p'eventing the lflaps of the coat from wrinmg. Havin thus fully described my invention, what I c aim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device for preventing coats from wrin-` kling comprising a series of pockets fastened in parallel relation to each other and secured to the lining of a coat, a stiflening-strip held in each ocket with the opposite longitudinal edges o each strip in contact with the stitching at the edoes of the pocket, and means for fastening eac strip to the lining of the coat, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afEX my signature in the presence of two witnesses. JAMES ARCHER VAUGHN. Witnesses:

C. G. NAPIER, S. kB. WORK. 

